• fullsquare@awful.systems
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    9 hours ago

    most of costs are costs of construction. french and koreans don’t seem discouraged and some plants in japan and china were built under budget. finland energy supply has large fraction of nuclear and they have extremely cheap electricity

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      8 hours ago

      The costs of construction and deconstruction are significant. You cannot just ignore them. That is useless cherry picking.